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Show THE ZEPHYR/ AUGUST-SEPTEMBER VOLUNTEERING FOR PASSES If you receive valuable compensation in exchange for labor, are you volunteering or are you employed? If an agency, a concessionaire, or a non-profit organization operating upon federally managed public lands gives a free recreation pass in exchange for a specific quantity of labor performed, is that showing appreciation or providing employment? The Oregon Court of Appeals will soon be taking up those issues in a nationally significant case. The case involves the giving of seasonal ski-passes to those who volunteer for the Bend-based Mt. Bachelor Ski Education Foundation --- but, so I suggest, 2007 MOAB CHEVRON Chevron something FAR more important is at stake!! The Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act of 2004 authorized the creation of a the America the Beautiful Volunteer pass which, according to government sources “ will be issued free of charge to volunteers who accrue 500 volunteer hours.” The America the Beautiful Pass is the contentious new $80 public lands recreation pass which replaced the older National Parks Pass and now provides basic access to most federally managed public lands. According to the front page article from today’s Bend Bulletin (appended), with respect to the giving of ski passes, Oregon’s “Employment Department and Department of Justice are arguing that those free annual passes are actually the equivalent of wages, because they have value and were offered in exchange for service.” The Hearings officer said: “Volunteering is commendable and in many ways governmental policies and laws do encourage this ... but the volunteer work cannot be done in exchange for remuneration or with the expectation of remuneration being paid.” I’ve long said that the America the Beautiful Volunteer Pass was ILLEGAL because it compensates workers at the equivalent of sixteen cents per hour and runs afoul of minimum wage laws. Now it appears that the awarding of an America the Beautiful Volunteer Pass may have more legal problems than those to which I’ve previously pointed. And as the federal government continues to transition from using paid employees to using volunteers, the issue of what exactly is a volunteer will become of increasing importance. “IT'S FINALLY HERE! BIO-DIESEL BIOO Come help us celebrate the tapping of the first gallon on AUGUST 4th FOOD COURT: 7AM to 7PM Specialty Sandwiches...Soup Salads to Go...Vegsie Options GAS---4 CENTS/GAL DISCOUNT with CASH or CHEVRON CARD. Now feataneg ee LEGERS SANDWICHES fpr Breakfast and Lunch. Choose from a variety of savory items, ...made while you wait. 817 S. MAIN ST in MOAB 5-1IPM MIDNIGHT on WEEKENDS Free-Market Techno Environmentalism will DELAY the day when genuine progress is made toward solving genuine environmental problems. OUTDOOR FREE MARKET TECHNO-ENVIRONMENTALISM Those on the political RIGHT are having a field day with a commentary written by a British-based American author Lionel Shriver. The article, titled “How Outdoor Books & Green Was My Garbage” was published this week in the Wall Street Journal and makes the startling claim that “Environmentalism has become the fashionable fig leaf to cover for extortion.” Sadly, and speaking as a hard-core progressive environmentalist, I believe the claim is largely justified and, if anything, understated. Almost a decade ago, during the Clinton/ Gore era and long before the events of 9/11, I predicted that a particular brand of Free- Gear Coffee 263 S. 100 East Kanab, UT 84741 435.644.8884 oasis@kanab.net G10) 242-8071 fel Oe iincicodousueiebscansn Market Techno Environmentalism would someday rise up and become a direct replace- ment for what I assumed would be the declining role played by the Military Industrial Complex as the primary engine of crony-capitalism. It turns out that I was only half wrong. Free-Market Techno Environmentalism is quickly becoming a fig leaf that will www.willowcanyon.com do more to redistribute wealth to those who are already wealthy than it will do to solve pressing and real environmental problems. Free-Market Techno Environmentalism will DELAY the day when genuine progress is made toward solving genuine environmental problems. And Free-Market Techno Environmentalism will, or so I predicted, evolve into a tool used by those who rule the world to further advance what is fundamentally a anti-democratic RIGHT-WING pro-corporate-dominance agenda. Right-wing bloggers and commentators will bitch and moan either reflexively and without thinking, or deliberately and with considered malice. My fellow progressive enviros will look the other way. As a result, the collapse of democracy, quality of life and environmental integrity will occur at an accelerated pace. FROM FOOTPRINTS 121 EAST 100 SOUTH #108 MOAB, UT 84532 800.635.5280 Here is a quote from the warning I issued almost a decade ago. So, in the waning days of this century we are witnessing the creation of the replacement for that venerable, WWII institution. With every passing month we will see new examples of federal subsidies being thrown at finding “Technological Fixes’ for our numerous environmental problems. Those problems of our own creation. While technological fixes may slow down the escalation of Global Warming, or food shortages, or air pollution, TOP TEN BENEFITS FROM 9. Beef arrives from the butcher already medium rare or those other maladies that threaten the sustainability of the human race, technological fixes, on their own will never solve the problem. 8. Get a tan in 30 minutes or less www.wildwilderness.org | 7. A charred pinyon is the Utah state tree 6. 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